1. The postgraduate entrance examination is like surviving in the wilderness. Please learn to find the direction accurately and allocate physical strength reasonably;
2. First of all, I want to say that many people say that the postgraduate entrance examination is a long-distance run, but in fact wrong. The postgraduate entrance examination is about survival in the wilderness. Unlike long-distance running, you only have to keep moving forward. On the way to the postgraduate entrance examination, you must not only maintain the courage to move forward, but also take appropriate rest, maintain your physical strength to the maximum extent, and make relatively correct choices at each stage.
In wilderness survival, accurately finding the direction and rationally allocating physical strength are as important as a healthy body.
Important! ! !
1. First of all, let me explain that this answer is completely applicable to the postgraduate entrance examination of journalism and communication, basically applicable to all humanities and social science majors, and partially applicable to science and engineering majors. You need to make your own judgment based on your own situation;
2. First of all, let me explain that the basic character setting of this answer is a lazy person with some self-discipline like the slipper brother. Assuming that everyone devotes 25 hours of efficient review time every week to review for the postgraduate entrance examination, Compared with 6 days a week and 4 hours of review every day, teenagers who have not passed Level 4 should consciously add 0.5 hours a day, and those who have skipped the exam or applied for 34 colleges should consciously add 0.5 hours a day. In addition, everyone needs to invest about 5 hours a week to think about life, collect experiences and post them.
3. Let me first explain that the most ideal goals that can be achieved in the junior year are as follows:
(1) Think clearly about principle issues such as whether to take the exam or not;< /p>
(2) Roughly determine the materials you want to use, save 10 experience posts that you think can guide you in reviewing and explore a learning method that suits you;
(3) Lay a good foundation for your English, besides passing CET-4 and CET-6 first;
(4) Those who take the math test can prepare in advance, I have no say in this;
(5) There is a concept in professional courses and you know what the great people are talking about.
1. Prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination starting from course selection. There are probably a few principles:
a. Make sure you have no classes except required courses in your senior year, and try to complete all credits in your junior year;
b. Ask your seniors about which teachers If the class is difficult, try to avoid it;
c. Try to arrange the classes on specific days, try to arrange them in the first period in the morning, and ensure that there are 2 days a week with no classes at all or only the first period in the morning There are classes.
2. Arrange review time.
During this period, everyone has not fully entered the review state. If you ask yourself to stay in the study room every day, you will basically just play with your mobile phone. However, efficient self-study for 25 hours a week must be guaranteed.
Allow at least 45 minutes every day. It’s good to memorize a word, read an English article extensively, and watch some professional courses. Try not to go without review for two consecutive days. I’m not afraid of you. It is a waste of time, but the "guilt" caused by not reviewing for a few days is a kind of negative energy that will make you think about all kinds of things;
In addition, ensure that there is a fixed time every week A block of time is used for review, and a whole afternoon of 3-4 hours is the most enjoyable. This is why everyone was asked to schedule the classes as tightly or loosely as possible.
You don’t have to have a clear study plan during this period, but you should keep a proper record of your daily study time and the amount of tasks completed, and look for the workload you can bear and the feeling of customizing the plan. But it is best to determine in advance what time you will do. For example, you will study English in the morning and professional courses in the afternoon. Otherwise, the first thing you do every time you sit in the study room is to wonder whether you should study English or math for this hour and the next hour. This is so stupid for a professional class, okay?
At this stage, it is recommended that you devote at least half of your time to English review and lay a solid foundation. (How to lay the foundation will be discussed later)
Additional reading: Why do successful people wear the same clothes every day? Because they know that there are more important things to do than thinking about which clothes to choose (please Baidu yourself)
3. Find a review method that suits you.
Do you think I want to talk to you about how to find experience posts and whose experience posts are reliable?
No, no, no, we are just drinking chicken soup. Why don’t you drink some high-quality ones? The so-called seniors were actually not much better than you a few months ago. Didn’t they just wear their underwear outside after passing the exam? .
In most cases, everyone actually makes a lot of mistakes when preparing for the exam, but some people are talented, some are willing to work hard, and some are lucky. Of course, everyone has different reasons for success. There are differences, but you should always be careful when a group of people who don't really understand why they passed the exam write experience notes for you.
This is not over yet. When I wrote the post, there was a term in psychology called self-serving attribution, which means that when people succeed, they are more willing to emphasize that success is due to their own reasons, so you will see All experience posts are to study hard and make progress every day.
In addition, after the exam, I will share my experience. According to Lejia, most of them are teenagers with red personalities. Of course, there are also a small number of blue and yellow teenagers. Normally, green teenagers will not do such "boring things" "Things.
The personality characteristics of the red boy are simply "go crazy if you want to succeed, be simple-minded and rush forward". He is driven, willing to endure hardship, and has strong language and organization skills, but he also likes to brag and only pays attention to what he says. I never care about the qualitative "It seems awesome to say this" quantitatively "It's not accurate to say this", and it is difficult to avoid missing some key and basic things. Take a look at the experiences of these people. That's fine, just do exactly what they say, and you'll be exhausted.
So where should we go to find a learning method that suits us?
Cognitive science is a systematic science, and its research results basically tell us how to learn more efficiently.
Since we all need to drink chicken soup, why not find some original version, the old-fashioned chicken soup that has been passed down for decades and has been tested by generations of readers to satisfy yourself?
For example, on the question of how to read a book, do you dare to read "How to Read a Book";
For example, on how to make full use of limited review time, do you dare to read it? Go watch "Illustrated Pomodoro Technique: A Simple and Easy Time Management Method";
For another example, how to learn knowledge and organize notes, do you dare to read the "Mind Map User Manual" and get used to it? Teenagers who use tablets to take notes can also consider adding a copy of "Evernote Super Efficient Digital Notes", you deserve it;
For example, if you have memorized a lot of theories, but still can't understand them effectively, and you still forget them, you might as well Go watch "How to Study Efficiently" written by Scott Yang, a super academic who completed 33 courses in 4 years at MIT in 1 year?
As for the retention rate of learning content after two weeks, I am conservative about whether the data is accurate, but the general idea is correct. Before studying hard, it is necessary to study the learning itself.
Additional reading: Pay attention to the real questions and truth responses to the Journalism and Communication Postgraduate Entrance Examination W10, and read "Ten Wheels of Calligraphy" prepared by Slipper Brother for those who are applying for Journalism and Communication and other humanities and social science majors
< p>1. Regarding the significance of postgraduate entrance examination.I have a positive attitude towards whether knowledge can change destiny. Who is suitable for the postgraduate entrance examination? Of course, those with academic dreams are a small minority, but in fact we all know that only about 10% of graduate students will eventually choose to study for a Ph.D.
So, does graduate school help your work? Why not let us quote a sentence from the PPT master Qiuye -
In fact, most people take the postgraduate entrance examination not because they like scientific research, but for a good job. There is no problem with this. I took the postgraduate entrance examination because it was easier to find a job with a higher education.
If it is for employment, if I were to think about it now, the above issues would not be the first focus of my thinking at all.
If I make a choice for my daughter, my decision-making model is like this.
If you enter a high-growth industry, don’t take the postgraduate entrance examination, go to work first!
If you enter the structural adjustment industry, take the postgraduate entrance examination and avoid the limelight!
For most people, the greatest significance of graduate school is as a springboard for you to find a good job. As an uncle who was born in 1988 and returned to school after working for 5 years, I can tell you responsibly that the current job market is really bad, worse than ever before. Of course, there will never be a shortage of jobs in the job market, and people who are willing to endure hardship and conditions are really good. Good young people may wish to work hard. Staying in school for a few more years and waiting for the market to improve before looking for a job can help everyone have a better chance of entering a good platform.
The myth that after 3 years of graduate school you find out that the people who interview you when you are looking for a job are your own classmates are only suitable when the job market is good. What you have learned after working for 3 years in the current scummy employment environment may be possible after graduate school. Others can also learn it in the next six months (of course, this conclusion is not suitable for students who graduated from 985 colleges and universities and have excellent qualities).
For things like going to work, what you are selling before the age of 30 is your own potential. The indicator for others to judge your potential is not your age, but how many years you graduated. Just postponing employment gives you a legitimate reason to stay in school for a few more years, waiting for your knowledge and experience to grow naturally, and at the same time waiting for the job market to naturally improve before going to work. For this purpose alone, you can go to graduate school. It’s a business that doesn’t make a loss.
So, when answering the question "Slipper brother, I feel very confused and I don't know what I can do and whether I am suitable for the postgraduate entrance examination" to many students, my answer is "Confusion is actually just a matter of your ability." It’s not just about your own ambition, and graduate school is a way to increase your ability, so take the exam!”
Let’s use a simple and crude standard classification: except for the 985 good boys and the 211 boys with clear employment goals, for the vast majority of students, going to graduate school is an absolutely profitable business. As for whether you can read it, you need to work hard on your own. (Of course, I am not saying that these two types of students are not suitable for postgraduate study, but the opportunity cost of these two types of people is higher. You need to consider whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination or postgraduate study.)
2. Regarding school choice .
Choosing a school is the first thing everyone should consider in their junior year. We often talk about the three spans. In fact, we are talking about the three major selection dimensions that everyone has to face when choosing a school for the postgraduate entrance examination: region, school and major. Many people think about the problem by first deciding on a major and then selecting a school. When choosing a school, they also decide on the region. This is unreliable. The appropriate approach is to first select the region and then select the school based on the comprehensive major.
Region can shape a person. If you can be silly and naive when you are an undergraduate, you must have the consciousness of "I am willing to live in this city for more than ten years" when choosing a graduate school.
The huge regional differences in China are unique in the entire world. First-tier cities have long since caught up with the United States and surpassed the United Kingdom, and life in small mountain villages is even harder than in Africa. American scholars have verified that the more authoritarian a country is, the more likely it is to use all resources to please the residents of the capital and first-tier cities. Therefore, when planning for future life, the imperial capital and magic city are on the same level, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are on the same level, and coastal tourist destinations Cities (Hangzhou, Xiamen, etc.) and provincial capitals are on the same level.
My suggestion is that everyone should consider their family situation and ambitions and choose one of the two cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and the capital city of the province where they were born. Those with good family conditions will give priority to the province of birth, and those with average family conditions will give priority to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. deep.
Then, the major is mainly based on interest. Try to think about it. If you don’t want to study for a Ph.D., please avoid super unpopular majors like philosophy.
As for schools, my suggestion is to be ambitious. If you choose a provincial capital city, please directly apply for the best school in the province. If you choose Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, you should act within your ability and consider various uncrowned kings.
Don’t say that you have a poor foundation. For the postgraduate entrance examination, the biggest foundation is how much preparation time you have. Preparation starts from the junior year, and it can be considered as the stage of accumulating the foundation until September. Half a year is enough. Eliminate the starting point gap between you and your so-called “good foundation” competitors. To put it bluntly, if you apply for a "relatively easy" school, it will be easier for you to relax during the learning process, and the possibility of being admitted may not be greater than if you just go to 34 schools. I know a fellow student who studied at a second normal college in District B during the Third World War. She studied for three years of politics without taking the exam. I thought it was strange that she finally passed the exam.
3. About confusion and anxiety.
Twenty-three years old is the best age in a person's life, but it is also the most confusing age in a person's life. At this stage, you have too many choices. Choice means giving up, and giving up means pain. This is where your confusion comes from. When you graduate from college, you will make choices for your future as adults for the first time. Since you were young, you have heard too much nonsense about not losing at the starting line, and too many myths about the five years after graduation that determine your life. The desire for immediate success determines your anxiety. But having a choice is definitely not a bad thing. The idea of ??letting someone make a decision for me is irresponsible to myself.
Faced with such confusion and anxiety, I hope you will not run away. Another way of thinking is that I am happy, and all my uneasiness is because I still have a choice.
In addition, I would like to use a lyric to give you some tips on reducing anxiety: just listen to what others say and make your own decision. Or to put it in a rebellious way, I have been away from my parents for the past three years.
Now you are in an "anxiety field". In addition to yourself, your classmates, your parents, and many people are even more anxious than you, and this emotion will interact with each other. Contagious. Parents all over the world have a common problem, which is to regard their children as the hope of realizing their own wishes.
To be honest, it is difficult for them to understand what we have to face at this age. What they know are just modified myths that belong to other people’s children. Everything they do is for your good, but they don't know whether this kind of good is what you want, or whether the good they think is really suitable for our era. Adequate communication with parents is good, but the anxieties of those closest to you will have the greatest impact on you.
Looking back on my 23-year-old life, my mother emphasized countless times that she "considered my future so much that I couldn't sleep for several days and got up secretly in the middle of the night to cry." However, in my opinion, I was the biggest in those years. The pressure was to convince my mother to be relieved about my status at that time, not to mention that an important reason why I went back to school now was that I was working in my fourth year because of the pressure from my mother. I was transferred from a company with only 7 people to it. 12 million in venture capital, and 2 years later, the company that is now considering the issue of going public resigned and returned to his hometown, and then did not adjust well for a long time.
4. The most important thing about the postgraduate entrance examination is to manage your physical and emotional energy.
The postgraduate entrance examination is really not difficult to say. If you can maintain a decent review state throughout the whole process and stick to it, consider starting to prepare from your junior year. Basically, even if you can't, you will be far away from the target institution. The distance will not be more than 10 points, but every year, a large number of friends give up treatment for one reason or another during the preparation process. Why, there is not enough energy.
So, how to increase energy?
Guarantee 7 hours of sleep a day, try not to stay up late, exercise for 20 minutes a day to recharge, and eat well from time to time to recharge. It can be summed up in four words: "regular work and rest".
It is also important to avoid "consumption". For example, don't set too tight and too high goals for yourself. It would be strange if you don't feel tired if you regret what you haven't accomplished every day;
In addition, the study schedule is not fixed. The first thing in the study room is to worry about what to read today, which will consume a lot of energy;
Another example is that the living arrangement is not fixed, and you are struggling with "what to eat for lunch" The positive energy consumption of "what to wear today" is no less than a complex math problem;
There is also a group of roommates who have no goals, the women have nothing to do shopping, and the men play LOL every day, the friendship is very It is important, but the future is even more important;
Of course, what is even more terrifying is the breakup of a boyfriend and girlfriend during the postgraduate entrance examination. This is simply a natural and man-made disaster. Therefore, boys and girls who have not started a relationship, please do not start it easily.
I would like to make a small request here. In addition to continuing the idea of ??a luxury private school with 9 teachers training 21 students in last year’s study tour class, the Slipper Brother team plans to open a private school in 2017 (yes, due to the withdrawal of investment by the partner, this year You probably won’t be able to enjoy it anymore) We have launched a postgraduate entrance examination apartment project that purely provides accommodation + self-study space services for postgraduate entrance examination candidates. What do you imagine about the “ideal postgraduate entrance examination environment”? Can you please click to read the original text and tell us?
English
If you only have two afternoons a week that you can devote yourself to reviewing, please give them to English.
Professional courses/politics at this stage are enough to make full use of some fragmented time.
Of course, because the journalism and communication major does not take mathematics, those who want to take mathematics should make their own adjustments. English review at this stage does not require too much or progress, but it does require you to understand everything as much as possible.
What do you mean by everything? Vocabulary, grammar, language sense, and the teacher's unique question-writing ideas are ranked in order.
Many experience posts talk about the weird ideas for setting questions for the postgraduate English exam. In fact, that is just because you are used to the test method of CET-4 and CET-6 where you only need to find information points to score points.
In fact, as long as you can truly understand the article, the so-called weird question writing ideas will not affect you at all.
Those who want to cut corners and achieve high scores in the postgraduate entrance examination by studying question-writing ideas instead of improving their English level are only suitable for those who start preparing in September and have a maximum goal of 55 points.
We are the regular army who started preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination in our junior year, okay? Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, "Any warrior should use righteousness and surprise to win." All kinds of secrets are in October and November, and the review situation is in a mess, and I am even afraid of it. Children who cannot cross the national border should be concerned. What you need now is to work hard to improve your ability to read articles.
Remember, especially if you want to get into a prestigious school, if you don’t have a total English political score of 13, it’s just for fun. You may need a foundation to get a score of 70, but all teenagers who start preparing for it in their junior year should at least score 65. as your own goal. If you want to get high scores, you must be precise and lay the best foundation in the final exam stage.
Of course, the Chinese people’s brains are indeed very linear, unlike our Chinese people who have a history of 5,000 years of civilization who like to refine the central idea of ??an article, so look for information in CET-4 and CET-6 and yes/no/ in IELTS The no given test method is actually more suitable for daily English applications, but from the perspective of academic research, the postgraduate test method can truly show that you understand the article.
What, you want to complain about asking foreigners to take the postgraduate English exam and they only get 40 points? That’s because a large number of foreigners in China are losers. The most articles for postgraduate entrance exams come from The Economist, which is a magazine between academic and public. It’s normal for domestic foreigners to not be able to understand it.
So, here comes the question, how to effectively improve your ability to read articles. My suggestion is to do the real questions, do the real questions carefully, and pay attention to every detail to do the real questions. I'm done, let's translate it. Well, the translation is finished, let me memorize it by the way. Well, I know it by heart, so I’ll write it down silently. Well, we can't take this anymore, otherwise you will collapse.
Some people will definitely want to say, Brother Slipper, you must be kidding me. How can anyone on earth prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination like this? I can’t even think of passing the real questions before the exam. Haha, I didn’t ask you to do all this.
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